Oil-stove



(No Model.)

S. D. STRONG.

OIL STOVE. 474,874. Patented May 17, 1892.,

715s Jaw-aga NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

. SAMUEL D. STRONG, OF CHELSEA, MICHIGAN.

OIL-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,874, dated May 17, 1892.

Application filed December 1, 1891- Serial No. 413,727. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. STRONG, of Chelsea, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-St0ves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The present improvement relates to oilstoves, and particularly to the parts immediately connected or used in connection with the burner; and the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a small perspective of a stove embodying my present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail section of the burner and water-reservoir and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modified arrangement. Fig. 4 is a similar view of another arrangement.

Like letters of reference in the several figures indicate the same parts.

The invention is shown in connection with a well-known variety of oil-stove now on the market and will at once be recognized by those skilled in the art. Hence there is no need of describing the same in detail further than to say that A is the base-section, containing the fuel-reservoir A and burner, with its 'con' nected parts, as will be presently described.

B is the top portion, having four corner flues B leading up' at the sides of the combustion-chamber and opening into the dome B.

O O are the transparent sections or windows opposite the combustion-chamber. The four flues before mentioned form the sides of the windows or transparent portions, and their surfaces are formed into reflecting-surfaces C flaring away from the windows, which surfaces. merge into similar reflecting-surfaces C on the top section above the windows, the effect of which is to diffuse the light from the windows, preventing the formation of deep shadows by the flues, as might otherwise be the case. The top section is hinged to the bottom section and around its base is provided with a rail D, which, besides giving the stove a highly-ornamental appearance, serves as a cold hand-hold to tilt the upper section back for the inspection of the burner, 850. Such rail itself does not become highly heated, because of the relatively small metallic connections with the stove-body, aswill be readily understood.

Returning now to the base-section, it will be seen that the fuel-reservoir or oil-tank is of annular form, and within it is supported by connecting-lugs or otherwise a cylinder E, upon the upper end of which is mounted the annular outside deflector H for the flame. This cylinder in turn supports the wick-tube F, having the usual double walls and a pipe or tubular connection with the oil-reservoir at the bottom, together with the necessary accessories for raising and lowering the contained Wick.

Within the wick-tube and supported therefrom, as just mentioned, with relation to the tube E or in any other suitable manner is a third tube or cylinder G, open at top and bottom.

Between and around all of the tubes mentioned are formed air-passages, through which air for maintaining the combustion is sup plied, that coming up outside of the Wick-tube serving to supply the air to the-outside of the flame, being controlled and properly directed against the flame by the annular outside de-,

flector H, before mentioned, and that coming up inside of the tube supplies the inside of the flame, being controlled and directed against the flame by the annular inside deflector I. This last-mentioned deflector is mounted on the upper end of the open bottom cylinder G above the wick-tube and deflector H, the flame being adapted to pass around over its edge.

Instead of forming the deflector solid way across or with a relatively small opening therein, as heretofore, it has practically no centeror is annular in form, the central aperture being of substantially the size or slightly smaller than the cylinder upon which the deflector is supported, and within the central opening so formed is suspended a water-reservoir, preferably removable, whereby it may be removed and filled to prevent any possibility of the water accidentally dropping on the Wick, the result of which would bedisadvantageous.

The water-reservoir is lettered K, and in Fig. 3 it is hung directly on the deflector itself, for which purpose it has its upper end flanged out or a projection or rim it formed thereon, which rests on the inner edge of the deflector. In the remaining figures the'waterreservoir is not connected with the deflector at all, but is carried on supports from the cylinder G. In Fig. 2 it is shown supported 7.

on lugs or fianges'l, turned in from the bottom of the cylinder, and in Fig. at its support is shown as a cross-bar Z, and this form, it will beseen, permits the air to circulateup around the" reservoir and out through the annular inside deflector, serving in a measure toincrease the evaporation of the water, and in this respect being perhaps somewhatthe preferable form A cross wire or handl'esu'chas Iumay be provided for lifting the water-reservoir, although this is not an absolute essential.

The arrangement of the inside deflector and water-reservoir is atonce simple and effective, the construction being cheaper than-that here'- tofiore employed and more convenient and eftrcient,- first, because the water reservoir maybe removed for filling: and cleaning, and, secondly, because the relation of the central deflector to the-wick-tubea1 aysrem'ains the same, nonecessity existing for its removal for filling the water reservoir.

oil-reservoir, Wick-tube, cylinder within said tube, and inside annular deflector supported on the upper end of the cylinder, of the waterreservoir held within the cylinder, substantially as described.

2. In an oil-stove, the combination, with the oil-reservoir, viclctube, and annular inside deflector held within the circle of the wick- 1 tube, of the water-reservoir located below and removable through the central opening in the deflector, substantially as described. 3. In anioil-stove, the combination, with the oil-reservoir, wick-tube, and cylinders on both the outside and inside of said tube, of the ann'ular outside and annular inside deflectors supported, respectively, on said-cylinders, and the. water-reservoir located below and removable through the opening in the inside deflector, substantially as described.

t. In anoil-stove, the combination with': the oil-reservoir, wick tube, cylinder within the wick-tube, and annular inside deflector supportedon said: cylinder, of the removable water reservoir in the cylinder removable through the central opening. in thedeflector, substantially as described.

5. In anoil-stove, the combination,witirthe :oil-reservoir, wick-tube, and annular inside deflector, of the water-reservoir having aipro- =jection at the'top col-operating witlrthe-inner T edge-0E the-deflector, whereby the water-reservoi r is supported,.substant-iallyas'described.

SAMUEL D: STRONG. \Vitnesses;

P. W. STRONG, J NO. W. BRIGHTON. 

